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A Biography of America

Contemporary History – Key Events

1973

Energy Crisis begins

1976

Bicentennial

1979

Three Mile Island nuclear accident

1979 - 1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1981

AIDS first identified in U.S.

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1991

Persian Gulf War

1992

L.A. riots

1998

Clinton impeached

Units